Serbs Offer Kosovo Negotiations

BELGRADE: Slobodan Milosevic didn't survive this long through brute force
alone: After yesterday's NATO fly-by to encourage the Serb leader to end his
aggression in Kosovo, Milosevic today emerged from a meeting with Boris Yeltsin talking compromise. Although he gave no
specific response to NATO demands, he offered to hold peace talks with
ethnic Albanian leaders from Kosovo. "Milosevic is an expert in exploiting
disagreements within the Western camp and their general reluctance to
intervene," says TIME reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "He will back off, but
only slightly -- enough to leave the international community wondering what
to do next as the situation in Kosovo continues to deteriorate." NATO has
been struggling to muster the political will to act against a defiant
Milosevic; they may find it even harder to act against a sweet-talking Milosevic.